{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-regulations-2024/regulation-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-regulations-2024/regulation-48.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/692",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/48",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Preliminary market engagement in relation to private utilities",
  "text": "(1) The PA 2023 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 17 (preliminary market engagement), after subsection (2), insert—\n“(3) This section does not apply to a private utility, other than to a private utility which is a devolved Welsh authority that is not carrying out procurement under a reserved procurement arrangement or a transferred Northern Ireland procurement arrangement.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 48 in force at 23.5.2024, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/692/regulation/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:28:56.589918+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}